Improvement in wash-boards



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

O. H. BALDWIN.

Wash-Board.

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

C. H. BALDWIN.

Wash-Board.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

CHARLES H. BALDWIN, OFHIFFIN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,852, dated March 5, 1878; application filed February 13, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. BALDWIN, of Tiflin, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Wash-Boards; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is the construction of what is commonly designated a metallic wash-board, in such manner that cups or pockets for the reception and temporary retention of soap shall be formed throughout its working-surface, and in such manner that the metal composing the lower portion of such cups or pockets shall form a series of ele vated rubbing-surfaces, against which the clothes, in the act of washing, are pressed and rubbed, while gutters oneach side, to the right and left hand of said cups, are formed from the top to the bottom of the Wash-board, in order to carry off the suds without at the same time washing out the soap from the cups or pockets, and so cause the unnecessary waste of the soap used for cleansing the clothes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved wash-board, the frame A being of ordinary construction, and having a metal working-siu-face, B, secured therein in any proper manner. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the metal working-surface B of my wash-board, the view being taken looking downward when the board is made to assume avertical position. Fig. 3 is a plan view, of enlarged size, of a portion of the metal working-surface of my wash-board; and Fig. 4, a vertical transverse section of said surface in the line at wof Fig. 2.

In these views 0, indicates a series of soap cups or pockets, situate consecutively, one below the other, in a direct line from the top to the bottom of the wash-board. A multiplicity of series of such cups, all lying in the same planes longitudinally and transversely of the wash-board, are formed upon the surface of bing-surfaces, against which the clothes are pressed and rubbed, while passed in the hand of the operator up and down the wash-board in a direction longitudinally thereof.

As shown in the several figures, and clearly in sectional view, Fig. 4, waterways or gutters, as at f, areformed the wholelength of the Working-surface B of the wash-board, in which gutters the Wash-water flows down the board into the tub, in which the board maybe placed during the act of washing. These gutters, it will be observed by reference to Fig. 4, do not extend to the bottom of the soap-cups 0, but are a proper distance above the bottom of said cups, so that the current or flow of the water down the wash-board will not wash out the soap from the bottom of said cups; and by thus constructing the waterways or gutters f no undue waste of soap is incurred, the tendency of the soap being to seat itself in the bottom of the cups or pockets 0, and so not be swept away from the working-face of the wash-board in the act of washing.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- A wash-board having a metal working-surface, composed of a series of soap-cups, c, rubbing-ridges d, and lateral gutters f, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witness my hand, in the matter of my application for a patent for a metallic wash board, this 7th day of February, A. D. 1878.

CHAS. H. BALDWIN.

Witnesses:

NELsoN B. LUTES, HARRISON NOBLE. 

